John Milton - The Poet In The Tower (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Paul Rainer
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 11" (320mm x 290mm)
Date: 1968
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: RainerMilton

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Paul Rainer.

In this painting John Milton is led away by friends to a tactical imprisonment in the Tower of London under an old warrant. He had frequently been attacked for his 'outrageous' opinions and with the coming of the Restoration in 1658 he became a hunted man.

On hearing that Milton had gone to The Tower voluntarily Milton was pardoned by Charles II on the understanding that the King need not read any of Milton's poetry.

Original artwork for an illustration on p24 of Look and Learn #381.

• Artist Biography
  Paul Rainer (Flourished 1950s and 1960s)
  Paul Rainer, an illustrator about whom not much is known. We know he was active in the 1950s in Everybody's Magazine, and in the 1960s contributed to both Bible Story and Look and Learn.
  
  He illustrated a couple of series in Look and Learn including 'People and Plants' in 1966, the excellent 'Who Said...?' in 1967 and various others in 1968-69. Before that, he was one of the regular illustrators for Bible Story, illustrating 'The Story of the Life of Jesus' (1964).